Top Movies of 1991


The top movies of 1991 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

111. Billy Bathgate

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Benton
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci
Plot: The film is seen through the eyes of its title character who is a young man from the Bronx played by Loren Dean who encounters and impresses the notorious 1930's gangster and bootlegger Dutch Schultz and even becomes his protégé.

112. The Rocketeer

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Terry O'Quinn
Plot: Set in the late 1930s, budding pilot Cliff Secord stumbles across a jet pack that allows him to fly. After using the device to save a celebrity, he is suddenly on the run from gangsters, FBI and the Nazis - all who want the device for themselves.

113. Dutch

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Faiman
Actors: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald, Ari Meyers, Elizabeth Daily
Plot: A gruff construction worker offers to pick up his wealthy girlfriend's snobby son at a prep school in Georgia to bring him home for Thanksgiving in Chicago, but when their personalities collide, they'll have to learn to live together if they ever want to make it home.

114. Not Without My Daughter

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian Gilbert
Actors: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel, Georges Corraface
Plot: A married couple, an American female (Sally Fields) and an Iranian male (Alfred Molina), visit Iran to celebrate the birth of a new baby in the family. Without notice the husband announces that he has been fired from his job in the U.S.A. and that they will stay in Iran against the wife's wishes. Based on the true life experiences of Betty Mahmoody.

115. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan, Concetta Tomei
Plot: A single mother leaves her five children in care of an elderly, vicious babysitter. The five are horrified, until she dies of a heart attack the first night. They take care of the body, only to realize they left all of the summer money with it. Now the eldest daughter, Sue Ellen, has to fake a resume to a fashion company in order to support the family.

116. Poison

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Haynes
Actors: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta, Lydia Lafleur, Rob LaBelle

117. Lyrical Nitrate ( Lyrisch nitraat )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Delpeut
Actors: Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm

118. Madonna: Truth or Dare

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alek Keshishian, Mark Aldo Miceli
Actors: Madonna, Donna DeLory, Warren Beatty, Sandra Bernhard, Antonio Banderas, Pedro Almodóvar
Plot: Follows Madonna on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour including intimate backstage access, controversy over public decency and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit.

119. Eve of Destruction

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Duncan Gibbins
Actors: Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene, Kurt Fuller, John M. Jackson, Loren Haynes
Plot: A robot called "Eve" is armed with a nuclear device and during initial testing breaks loose in the city. The real Eve, along with a rescue team, must track down the renegade robot before the bomb goes off.

120. Until the End of the World ( Bis ans Ende der Welt )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: William Hurt, Sam Neill, Rüdiger Vogler, Chick Ortega, Jeanne Moreau, Max von Sydow

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